💡 Thoughts

An American kind of kindness

What lies behind typical American kindness? Something that, as I’ve discovered over the years, makes me terribly uncomfortable.

Sep 15 •

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I Will Save You

Part of the series “Places and habits that feel like home when I travel”: being by the roadside, hoping to be rescued.

Aug 18 •

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Part of the series “Places and habits that feel like home when I travel”: having dinner in front of a TV show puts me at peace with myself and with the…

Jul 21 •

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The familiarity of a pain

It was a pain I knew well, familiar, probably the same one my mother recognized herself in. A pain that somehow united us and, oddly enough, offered us…

Jun 9 •

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A statement of intent

I would like this blog to be a compass, a conceptual map, a research project, a collection of stories and reflections. I would like it to be useful…

May 1 •

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